A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE


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Issue 336 - 03 May 1988
For the first time since 1982 Iran has lost and Iraq has regained territory in the land war in the seven and a half year old Gulf conflict. Iraq's recapture of the strategic Al Faw peninsula has been greeted with jubilation in Baghdad and by face-saving references to a "redeployment to new positions" from Tehran.

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